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Examples of compendious
compendious
This is a compendious show but it also has a clear and militant agenda.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A compendious history of English literature and of the English language.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The footnotes are compendious, the sources are seemingly authoritative.
From the online.wsj.com
Here, Burnett's notes offer a fascinating, compendious vade mecum into Larkin's poetic world.
From the independent.co.uk
A series of exquisitely accurate and compendious collages unfolds, beginning with a double dawn.
From the guardian.co.uk
His knowledge of Canada's railways is compendious.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For their money, readers get a compendious global mix of reports on new thinking and trends from unlikely places.
From the businessweek.com
But could you achieve quite so broad and compendious a view from the topmost vantage point of Somerset House?
From the independent.co.uk
He combined liberal and tolerant views with a compendious knowledge and a sense of humour that was never malevolent.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
- Containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized; briefly describing a body of knowledge
